For me the end of Google Reader meant that I could finally stop using my Google account altogether since Reader was their only service I was using. It's a shame that so many of the Google Reader alternatives want me to sign in with my Google account again. In that case I simply won't use them (I'm looking at you, Feedly).
I have the exact opposite reaction: a site that allows me to use my google account and not create another one will get me to sign up more readily. Adding persona support is being considered.
This is the most approaching clone of Google Reader I've seen so far.
It has one big problem, however:
A feed can have only one tag (or, if you see a tag as a folder, a feed can be only in one folder).
This is a big problem because Google Reader's UI encouraged to add multiple tags on a feed (you didn't moved a feed from one folder to an other : you selected a list of tags the feed appear in). And the OPML format allows this too.
So, if you import an OPML export, half your feeds may appear to be missing.
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An other great Google Reader alternative is http://yoleoreader.com/ . Apart from its UI sometimes freezing for a second (maybe due to synchronous I/O or too long script execution), it's an other great Google-Reader-like RSS reader.
Granted, it's a one man shop, but he's charging $9-$29/year, so hopefully enough to keep it running.
It's written in Haskell and Ur/Web, is quite fast, took my Google Reader takeout with no issues (400 feeds scattered across 35 folders)
Allows login via Twitter, Facebook, Google or OpenID.
Very cool to see my co-worker's pet project front and center on HN when I wake up :) Matt's also working on an Android app for Goread at the moment, which is also open source: https://github.com/mjibson/goread-android/
It's hosted on Google App Engine. He has ads on the free version and an ad-free subscription option. You can self host if you want and it would probably stay under the free tier on AppEngine if it's just you (depending on the number of feeds and update frequency)
I switched to Goread.io as my full-time Reader replacement since I first heard about it after the announcement of Reader's demise. It's been a decent alternative, but it lacks the polish that Reader had, especially when it comes to read/unread stories.
After weeks of use, I haven't bothered to figure out the consistency of how to mark a story as read, so sometimes it will take frequent clicks on "Mark all as read" to register that I've read something. When you click a story, it awkwardly jumps your scroll position around.
These are minor complaints, and it's still very usable otherwise, but I'm thinking about upgrading my subscription to encourage development.
The jumping around got fixed last week. No one has reported the read/unread issues you've had. Could you report them to the github issues page? https://github.com/mjibson/goread/issues
It's also really slow, can't seem to keep track of my read items, and has been down an awful lot the past month. I had high hopes, but it's close to the point where I'm starting to look for something else. Again.
I tried to import my feed.ly feeds to this but the page stuck on "OPML import is happening. It can take a minute. Don't reorganize your feeds until it's completed importing. Refresh to see its progress." and I got no errors in the javascript console. It looks promising though. I find feed.ly to be too gimmicky and noisy. I like the minimal style of go read.
One thing that's missing from every google reader replacement I've tried is the ability to infinite scroll through a feed history. Somehow google knew how to request RSS feed pagination parameters.
I made a feed reader called Bulletin that has infinite scroll that works just fine. Can't see why others couldn't do it as well. We also went for minimal on the UI.
I really wanted to like this but it was missing a couple key features for me. I described by problems in the github issues page and wondered back the theoldreader. When theoldreader got slow and was down for over a day I came back and found he has continued to make fixes and addressed most by my issues. Very happy now, and the website is consistently responsive which I care about much more than fancy layouts.
That's why it's so awesome. What don't you understand? I get infinite scaling and the datastore. When goread hit the HN front page and the gizmodo front page a few weeks ago, it wasn't any slower: everything scaled perfectly. Consider some of the other readers that have hit the HN front page - they became unusable for a day or two until the traffic died down. App engine is an incredible platform for developing scalable websites.
Does someone have a more in-depth description of what exactly happens when I'd log in with a google account there, besides "Google will share your email address with Go Read" and "Go Read may use your email address to personalize your experience on their website"? Or is that really all there is to it?
I tried fever http://feedafever.com/. Its a nice selfhosting feed reader.
But after a while using online feed readers i still use Operas build in Reader.
Matt, this is really kind of fantastic... nicely done! Would love to see a breakdown blog post of how you architected/implemented this... extremely responsive, pleasing UI, no surprises. Just works.
This is really awesome. I've been using this for a few days now and really like it. I've been programming in Go alot these days, so the fact that it's in Go is a big plus for me.
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[0] : https://github.com/mjibson/goread
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It has one big problem, however:
A feed can have only one tag (or, if you see a tag as a folder, a feed can be only in one folder).
This is a big problem because Google Reader's UI encouraged to add multiple tags on a feed (you didn't moved a feed from one folder to an other : you selected a list of tags the feed appear in). And the OPML format allows this too.
So, if you import an OPML export, half your feeds may appear to be missing.
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An other great Google Reader alternative is http://yoleoreader.com/ . Apart from its UI sometimes freezing for a second (maybe due to synchronous I/O or too long script execution), it's an other great Google-Reader-like RSS reader.
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Granted, it's a one man shop, but he's charging $9-$29/year, so hopefully enough to keep it running. It's written in Haskell and Ur/Web, is quite fast, took my Google Reader takeout with no issues (400 feeds scattered across 35 folders) Allows login via Twitter, Facebook, Google or OpenID.
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That being said, of course, it's a great feature to have.
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After weeks of use, I haven't bothered to figure out the consistency of how to mark a story as read, so sometimes it will take frequent clicks on "Mark all as read" to register that I've read something. When you click a story, it awkwardly jumps your scroll position around.
These are minor complaints, and it's still very usable otherwise, but I'm thinking about upgrading my subscription to encourage development.
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The one feature that most others don't have, sharing and commenting with friends.
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One thing that's missing from every google reader replacement I've tried is the ability to infinite scroll through a feed history. Somehow google knew how to request RSS feed pagination parameters.
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bulletin.io
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Here is the information that Go Read stores per user: https://github.com/mjibson/goread/blob/master/goapp/types.go...
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